Greenix Village is a cultural art centre promoting Kerala's varied art forms under a single roof. Every evening the art centre showcase Kerala's best known dance drama Kathakali, its martial art form Kalaripayattu, a daily cultural audio-visual history at the ...
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be flying to Punjab's Bhikiwind village to pay tribute to Sarabjit Singh. The big question that arises is whether this is now turning out to be a competition for the netas who did little to give him justice, when he wa...
Sarabjit Singh's body was brought back to his village amidst tears and lots of angst. His last rites would be performed in his village Bhikhiwind. He would be given a cremation with full state honours. Sarabjit, who has been declared a martyr by the government...
Sarabjit Singh's last rites would be performed in his village Bhikhiwind. He would be given a cremation with full state honours. Sarabjit, who has been declared a martyr by the government, would be cremated at 2 PM.
Sarabjit Singh's wife speaks about the injustice meted out to her husband by the Pakistan government. Sarabjit Singh's body was brought back to his village amidst tears and lots of angst. His last rites would be performed in his village Bhikhiwind. He would be...
Sarabjit Singh's last rites would be performed in his village Bhikhiwind. He would be given a cremation with full state honours. Sarabjit, who has been declared a martyr by the government, would be cremated at 2 PM.
The last rites of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who died after being brutally assaulted in a Pakistani jail, would be performed in his village Bhikhiwind today. He would be given a cremation with full state honours. Sarabjit, who has been declared a mar...
Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal has declared Sarabjit Singh a martyr and will be awarding him a state funeral. His body is being flown in from Lahore through a special plane and his funeral will be held at his native village Bhikhiwind, tomorrow. A decision is t...
People from Sarabjit's village are angry following the his death. For the past six days, the villagers gathered at the gurudwara to pray for Sarabjit's recovery. The people of the village were extremely upset when they received the news.
Villagers of Tarn Taran district in Punjab claim that it was the government's complete apathy towards Sarabjit Singh's condition that resulted in his death. Protests in his village began soon after his death. The villagers say that the government must have pro...
The channel brings proof of China's relentless and naked aggression, and provocation of India. Two Chinese choppers intruded into Indian territory at Chumur village in August 2011 and destroyed 17 bunker structures.
Cable TV operators have expressed interest in offering broadband services in rural areas in a bid to generate additional revenues. The Telecom Ministry has asked the Cable TV operators' association to send a detailed report on the same. The Cable Operators Fed...
Chinese chopper intruded into the Indian territory by about 200-300 meters. Chinese soldiers got down from the chopper and dismantled 17 structures. They demolished bunkers on Indian soil and returned unchallenged from the Chumur village in Jammu and Kashmir.
Malayalapatti, a village in Perambalur, is not ready to die of starvation. The farm lands wear a dry look and water is no where to be found. Sensing that it would be foolish to wait for the rains, the farmers have turned to poultry. The chicken and egg busines...
Oru Gramam Pala Mugangal | While some countries have proved that there are supernatural elements around us, many rubbish these ideas. From blood-sucking vampires to revenge-thirsty spirits, several eerie creatures are believed to exist in India. Take a look at...
Oru Gramam Pala Mugangal | The Varadarajapuram village in Tirupur is very famous for the mangalsutras they make. The people in the village export mangalsutras to the rest of the state. Catch a day in the life of these mangalsutra makers.
Twelve people, all from Kuthar village in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district, were killed when a private vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a 700-metre-deep gorge on Sunday night. All 12 bodies were recovered early Monday from the wreckage of the vehic...
Two more people have been arrested in connection with the murders of DSP Police Zia-ul-Haq, village head Nanhe Yadav and his brother. However, the prime accused in the case, goon-turned-politician Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, has not been arrested ...
CBI has arrested slain village head Nanhe Yadav's son Babloo Yadav who, according to the investigating agency, murdered Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq. More arrests are likely in the future as the CBI has pointed out a larger conspiracy in the case. However, the alleged...
In the Hunsa village in Nizamabad's Bodhan mandal, a curious ritual takes place every Holi. It involves two groups from the same village attacking each other with fist-cuffs. The tradition dates back to 100 years. But rationalists say those injured during the ...
Directed by Shan, 'Village Guys' tells the story of four village guys from varied backgrounds and the girl whom they come across. Nirmal Jacob, Asokan, Hanishkhani, Minas, and Nakshatra do the lead roles. The screenplay is penned by Subod Cherthala for the sto...
It is a village located in the Rajasthan desert. It has mounds, derelict walls, abandoned wells, and a past that is shrouded in history, except for the lakhs of Paliwal Brahmins who say this was the site of their ancient home. So how did a flourishing settleme...
News Night | The channel unearths startling irregularities in Robert Vadra's land deals. It digs out proof of how Vadra flouted land laws in Haryana and Rajasthan. Vadras buy 46 acre land in Amipur village, Faridabad between 2005-2007. Seller Harbans Lal Pahwa...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav meet the family of slain village pradhan in Ballipur, Pratapgarh, and assures them of all government support. The slain pradhan's family had been demanding that the chief minister meets them. Talking to the media af...
Following the death of a village head, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Zia-ul-Haque, was shot dead by a mob with his own service revolver. Two other police officers too were injured in the incident. Security has been beefed ...
Following the death of a village head, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Zia-ul-Haque, was shot dead by a mob. Two other police officers were injured in the attacks. Heavy security has been deployed in the area following the i...
A village that sees sub-zero temperatures throughout the year. Oymyakon has been declared officially as the world's coldest village. It is located in the north-east of Russia and has a population of just 500 people. Here is how these villagers go about their d...
The Question Hour in the Kerala Assembly continues with ministers answering questions from the members of the Assembly on various aspects of administration. CN Balakrishnan, Minister for Co-operation, Khadi and Village Industries, answers queries from the mem...
Demolition of houses in Green Fields Colony in Khanajiguda of Malkajgiri on northern outskirts of Hyderabad and Bandla Ganesh make news in this bulletin at noon.
A village revenue office or VRO was caught red-handed by the Anti Corruption Bureau while accepting a bribe of Rs 35,000 from a farmer who had applied for a pattadar passbook for 20 cents of land. ACB officials recovered the cash from the VRO Bottu Ravi.
Bones and skulls of two women who had been dead for some time in a village in the Prakasam district were dug out allegedly by some people who believed they had mysterious powers. The incident has led to the villagers being panic-stricken.
In a case of unbelievable cruelty, a man set his wife and children on fire after accusing them of stealing gold. While the three children died due to burn injuries, the wife is battling for her life in a hospital. The man along with his parents, burnt the four...
Eight people have been feared dead in an avalanche that hit a remote village Kafnu in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh. According to sources, the authorities had already sent out a warning for the avalanche and people had been evacuated from the sparsely populated vi...
Chamel Singh, a farmer from Pargwal village of Jammu and Kashmir, who had almost served his five-year sentence was mercilessly beaten to death by three Pakistan policemen in a Pakistan jail. He had disappeared from his field and was arrested and convicted in P...
As Britain's independent retailers face constant threat from supermarket chains, one small business has managed to turn the tide, even thrive. The Village Shop in the remote region of Norfolk in east England is 370 years old. When this 'retail oasis' was faced...
Oru Gramam Pala Mugangal | While kids of today want to become doctors and engineers, the young ones of Puchimalaikuppam, Aarani, in Thiruvannamalai, want to join the Army. Meet the bravehearts of this village who want to serve the country selflessly.
Many ex-servicemen bought plots in a venture at the Adipatla village on the outskirts of Hyderabad. They had invested their hard-earned money to buy these plots. But now they see signboard of the Andhra Pradesh government in the site.
Villages at the LoC continue living under the constant fear of ceasefire violation. Children grow up in these villages listening to firing and shelling every single day. Rajouri is one such village where the children are scared to venture out alone after dark....
The ceasefire violation has affected the lives of citizens near the LoC. The children of the villages near the LoC are the most affected. They live everyday with fear. In 2001, when the tension escalated at the border, the villages had to be evacuated.
The villagers of the Kottangal village, Thiruvannamalai, have risen in protest against the lack of power supply in their village. A main transformer that carried electricity to their village burst three months ago and ever since the village has been plunged in...
Farmers in Chittoor district's Keeramanda village have alleged that a local mining company has been using the land allotted to them for mining granite. The farmers were allotted the land by the government and is termed DKD land. But the mining company Good Mor...
State secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) G Ramakrishnan has urged the Tamil Nadu Government to provide compensation of at least Rs 10 lakhs to survivors and families of the eight victims who were killed in the explosion at a firecracker unit i...
Seven persons, including two boys, were killed when firecrackers exploded while they were being packed at a firecracker unit in Parakallur village of Mecheri block in Salem district on Tuesday. The explosion seriously injured six people and also brought down t...
In a grievance meet organized by the District Collector in Thanjavur, the farmers organize a sit-in protest against a village administrative officer. Collector Bhaskaran was in for a shock as the farmers sat down in protest inside the office and demanded actio...
She was married at 9, and then deserted by her much older husband. Eking out a living as a laborer in Jamkhed in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, this lady overcome thoughts of suicide and strict caste hierarchy and gender bias as a Dalit woman, to become s...
Oru Gramam Pala Mugangal | Set on the banks of the Kollidam river, the island village of Ramanallur in the Ariyalur district is a perfect picture of peace and prosperity. Visit this self-sustainable village on this episode of Oru Gramam Pala Mugangal.
Ram Charan Teja's 'Nayak' is ready for a major promotional event. The audio of the movie is set to be released next Sunday on December 16. The movie is directed by VV Vinayak and the music is scored by Thaman. And of course all eyes would be on the remix of th...
Using torches, flashlights, cellphones, whistles and the determination to keep their area safe from dacoits, these villagers have formed teams that go on rounds of the village and keep in constant touch with each other over cell phones. The vigil starts at 10 ...
SOS Children's Village of India was awarded the SR Jindal price money of rupees five lakhs for its exemplary contribution towards homeless children. The organisation supports 23,000 children at 33 villages.
It is a village located deep inside the forest region of Alagadda in Kurnool district. It is infamous as the place where more than 80% of the people depend on smuggling of precious red sanders wood. A Tv9 reporter goes undercover as a small-time trader interes...
The tailor, King, owns the Custom Clothing and Accessories shop. Every year he, along with his Chimp, religiously makes his way to the The Burning Man Festival, a week-long festival that is held at Playa in Black Rock City in Nevada. For a week, this stretch o...
Strict actions will be taken against those panchayats who are not taking steps to organize Gramasabha villages, says Minister for Pmanchay ats MK Muneer. The minister was talking while inaugurating the Gramayathra Gramasabha at Vattamedu and Chakkupallam panch...
In India, the victims of the 26/11 attacks feel satisfied that Ajmal Kasab has been handed. One was a passenger boarding a train to Gujarat at the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai. Another victim was a hotel management student at a Mumbai's hotel. In Paki...
It is a smell like rotting bodies. The stench is unbearable. Mosquitoes abound. The water here is polluted. These are a sample of voices of people from two villagers in Shahabad mandal of Rangareddy district. They say the factory located near their village tha...
Nobel Peace Laureate and Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited Anantapur. Escorting her around this field visit to a women's self-help group movement were chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and Raghuveera Reddy who acted as the translator for h...
On the second day after Diwali, villagers gathers on two sides of an open field and launch rockets at each other. The scene resembles a virtual war, but one that is played with Diwali rockets that are normally fired in the air. Here the rockets are lit by hold...
It is a neat and well-organised village. Thookivakam village, just about ten kilometeres away from the religious town of Tirumala in Chittoor district, presents a surprising sight - no house, however prosperous its owner may be, has a second floor added to it....
Uttar Pradesh Minister, Riyaz Ahmed, has alleged that a senior Cabinet Minister in Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's Cabinet is taking money for transfers and postings. Ahmed has written a letter to the CM against Rajaram Pandey. Pandey says he is ready for inqu...
Farmers and residents of Loba village in Birbhum have come together to protest the police firing in the area on Wednesday. The police had open fire on a group of villagers who were protesting agricultural land being acquired by a private coal mining firm. The ...
TV9 organised a health camp in a colony in Visakhapatnam for those affected by the floods that followed in the wake of Cyclone Nilam. Elsewhere too, many NGOs joined hands with TV9 to organise health camps and flood relief.
Chandrabab Naidu's body was brought to his ancestral village Nimmada in Srikakulam district from the Visakhapatnam where he was brought dead early morning today after his car met with an accident on the national highway. Yerran Naidu was returning after a marr...
Nitish Kumar prays at Patna's oldest temple Shitlamata temple, while Lal Prasad Yadav visits his ancestral village of Phulwaria where he joins the crowds in chanting 'Har har mahadev' and prays at the Thave Durga temple. Back in Patna, Lalu also organises a Ki...
If Rajaanna's rule comes back, and if Jagananna become chief minister, then all your problems will be solved: that is Sharmila Reddy's speech to a young boy who was in tears when he said he did not go to school and that the frequently remained hungry. Sharmil...
Anjali Damania is also involved in suspicious lands deals too. Arvind Kejriwal has said a committee of ex-judges will look into the allegations against her. Anjali had bought land in Karjat near Lonavala, and her company SVS Developers then divided it into plo...
Sonia Gandhi visits the Haryana village of Sachakheda in Jind district. In Haryana, in the last 30 months, 13 rapes have occurred. In the Sacha Kheda village, a girl who was raped had committed suicide after the police failed to take any action against the cul...
There is trouble at the Ramky pharma city near Visakhapatnam. The villagers of Tadi village live in fear after an explosion at unit of Auctus Pharma. The village is located in the pharma City at Parawada near Visakhapatnam. The village was meant to be shifted ...
Nagarjuna's 'Shirdi Sai' involved a great effort to not just present a movie that would appeal to a wide audience and not just devotees of Saibaba, but also to produce a movie that would be a one step head of similar movies made on Saibaba. This story released...
The streets of this village empty out after 6 pm. Villagers remain indoor, and if they do have to venture out, they go in groups. In Chigurupadu of Nayudupeta mandal of Nellore district, the fear of something evil in the air hunts the villagers. It started wit...
The debt-crisis in Greece is grim as unemployment is on the rise, making it tough for parents to raise their children. Akis Drepanidis, Director, SOS Children's Village, says there is an increase in the number of children sent there by parents who can't manage...
It is a village that fears it is besieged by the evil eye. And from two quarters. One is the ghosts, and the other is blood-sucking vamire-like creatures. Villagers of Gollanapalli in Krishna district point to the death of several youth over the preceding few ...
The forest officials recently rescued a rhinoceros, after it took shelter in a swamp of a near by village, when the Kaziranga National Park experienced heavy floods in Assam. The rhino was stuck for close to 10 hours before forest officials rescued it on Satur...
Village Administrative Officer’s (VAO) exam will be conducted in 3,473 sub centres on Sunday. Due to the recent controversy on the question paper leak, strict monitoring has been undertaken. The conduct of the exam in sensitive centres will be monitored thro...
Over 20 men attacked the toll plaza on Gurgaon-Alwar highway, a 25-year-old employee was shot at and looted more than Rs 1 lakh. Eleven residents of Ramgarh village were among 21 people booked by police in connection with the shooting. The incident was capture...
Just three weeks after the fatal fire accident that claimed 39 lives in Sivakasi, another explosion rocked the fireworks hub killing three people on September 28 morning. The three deceased, all men aged about 40 years, were busy working in an unauthorised cra...
For days altogether, the villagers of this hamlet in Rajouri district of the Jammu region have been spending sleepless nights. They are haunted by the man who roams around the village's environs with his face masked. Such has been the terror of this mysterious...
This is strange custom from a village affected by drought. The entire village in Chittoor district has taken all its belongings and migrated to the nearby forest. The reason is the belief that such a migration from their village would result in rainfall. This ...
Oru Gramam Pala Mugangal| Flowers form an integral part of our daily lives. From birth to death, every important occasion in our life, is witnessed by flowers. However, for the villagers of Aathupakkam, flowers do not just form a part of their lives, they beco...
A deputy sarpanch, Muhammad Shafi, was shot dead by unidentified militants outside his home at Nowpora village in the Kreeri area. This is the second killing of a sarpanch in Baramulla. A man hunt has been launched to nab the killer. The Lasher-e-Taiba had cla...
Around 1500 demonstrators continue the anti-nuke protest in the sea at the Idinthakaral village in Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court has refused to stay the initial nulear fuel loading at the Koodankulam Nuclear Plant. The police issued notice to Udayakumar, who i...
This single house near Srinagar has become the cause of terror for the entire village. For several days now, its floor has been heating up abnormally. Water poured on the floor just evaporates. The residents of this house have left the house and are living in ...
The Madhya Pradesh State government used force to end the 'jal satyagraha' in the Harda district of the State. The government had earlier capitulated to a similar satyagraha in Khandwa district. Those villagers were demanding compensation for land submerged un...
The police are yet to file a FIR against an employer in Jharkhand's Sukhnadi village who beat up a daily wage labourer, Aliyar Rajwars, and had his hand chopped off when Rajwars asked for his overdue wages.
For more than two months now, residents in this small village in Kadapa district fear the coming of Thursday. Because a person has vowed to kill every one of those who got him arrested in a murder case and those who had beaten up his mother. This person Thota ...
The Godavari is overflowing. Even as villagers living along its banks in the two Godavari districts watch helplessly, the river has been cutting its banks, destroying standing crops, coconut groves and houses. This despite Rs 500 crore being spent by the YSR g...
The Jal Satyagraha is in its 14th day. The villagers in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district are demanding rehabilitation. The Government's decision to raise the water levels in the Omkareshwar Dam has resulted in 1000 acres of land being submerged. Around 60 vil...
The Madhya Pradesh Government is sending two Cabinet ministers to meet activists after the Jal Satyagraha touches two weeks. Union Minister Veerappa Moily is also sending a team to meet the villagers who are affected by the Government's decision to raise the w...
Across a large part of western and central India, water has played havoc on roads, buildings, houses, crops, vehicles, villages, towns, cities and on people. This story brings out in its rawness the capacity of overflowing streams and rivers to inflict damage....
MP protestors are demanding land for land. They are staging the protest standing in neck-deep water for the last 14 days. Many have developed blisters. The decision to raise the water levels in the Omkareshwar Dam and Indira Sagar Dam has affected 90 villages....
Hyderbad is getting water from Alimneti Madhav Reddy project, water that is lifted from the Krishna, but was originally meant to supply water for the fluoride-affected people of Nalgonda district. Hyderabad's water works was given the option since the ayacut f...
Even corpses are not spared the flooding that hit Madhya Pradesh' Khandwa district. A group who had gone to cremate a body were stranded when flood waters surrounded the cremation ground. Watch the rescue operation in action. The cremationn ground is on banks ...
Villagers in Khadwa district in Madhya Pradesh are standing on river water that has now reached upto their necks. And in another day or more, they could well drown. The audacity and bravery of these men and women who are number some 50, is being called the mos...
Two Assam rifles jawans are injured, one of them is in critical condition, after a bomb triggered by an IED device exploded in the Keisampat junction in Imphal. The bomb was planted on a scooter. This blast comes shortly after the blast in Nongpok Keithelmanbi...
Official apathy is taking its toll on the Indian sports once again as athletes of the ongoing Paralympic games are left high and dry without their coaches and support staff while the officials are enjoying the facilities offered at the games village. Dismayed ...
In another case of the victim being victimised, a 12-year-old girl who was raped has been denied entry into her school. The girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by four upper caste boys and now a diktat from a local Panchayat has ensured that she is denied e...
Maneaters have kept three towns -- Almora, Nainital, Nagpur -- on high alert. A young girl was killed in a village near Bageshwar. In Nagpur's Chikna village, the maneater was captured by forest officials after it killed one woman and injured three.
MNS Chief Raj Thackeray's obnoxious brand of 'hate politics' has sparked a national outrage again. After his 'warning' to renowned singer Asha Bhonsle, the MNS Chief has now caused an uproar with an anti-Bihar rant. In his latest political polarising salvo, Ra...